Mar 12 2022 03:14 AM - edited Mar 12 2022 03:16 AM
I upgraded from "Windows 10 to 11 via the auto update offer at the end of Jan-22, all worked fine up until last week when I tried to boot up following a regular shut down I got a blue screen with "Inaccessible Boot Device". The offered repair did not help and the recovery disk did not offer a boot to safe mode and nothing else helped. I then tried to do a system restore from an Aoemi backup booted via a USB stick, this completed with out errors but the system still would not boot, same problem. Fearing a hardware failure on the NVMe disk, I tried to restore to one of the SATA hard disks on the PC, again this completed without error but it would still not boot. To cut a long story short I carried out a new build of Win 11 on the original NVMe disk and reinstalled everything and it is working fine again.
I am obviously worried that it could happen again so my question is what could have caused the problem and why did none of the backups work (I had 1 system and 4 incrementals).
Regards
Mar 12 2022 07:28 AM
Mar 12 2022 07:39 AM
Thanks for the fast response, Repair did not help it remained inaccessible....
the Recovery disk did give me an option for command prompt though.
Mar 13 2022 12:41 AM - edited Mar 13 2022 12:42 AM
Thanks for your response.
Sorry for the delay, I did respond but on review I must have done something wrong because the post is not showing.
To answer your questions:- When I tried the repair it did not work, I do have a recovery usb stick and can get to the command prompt. As I mentioned in the OP I have reinstalled Win 11 from scratch and everything works, although I can still restore the failed system on a spare disk from the backups if you have any suggestions on how to return it to working order.
Mar 13 2022 08:29 AM